Archive for June, 2009
Times are changing
On May 28, the hosts of KRXQ’s “Rob, Arnie, and Dawn in the Morning” devoted half an hour to promoting abuse of trans children and making very cruel and untrue statements about trans children. Now lots of big sponsors like Bank of America are pulling their advertising.
Switch to Opera?
I switched from Firefox to Opera last November, but I switched back after about a month because 1) I missed my extensions and 2) the buttons on several sites (including one of my credit card websites and a site I had to use for one of my classes) didn’t work. When I heard about the […]
Even insurance doesn’t help
Americans aren’t going bankrupt because they’re buying fancy cars and flat screen TVs. They’re going bankrupt because of medical bills, even people who have insurance. And it’s only getting worse – I’m just one of many people who can’t afford to take needed prescriptions.
We are our bodies
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Without the stimulus and guidance of emotion, rational thought slows and disintegrates. The rational mind does not float above the irrational; it cannot free itself to engage in pure reason. There are pure theorems in mathematics but no pure thoughts that discover them. In the brain-in-the-vat fantasy […]
George Tiller
George Tiller was murdered a week ago in his church. He was one of just a few doctors in the United States who provide late term abortions. Ezra Klein points out that his murder was a political act and that Congress needs to act accordingly: Tiller was murdered so that those in his line of […]
What I’ve Noticed
It’s about entitlement, stupid. Dr. Isis gives advice to a grad student who works with a scientist that won’t stop looking at her boobs. Then she responds to the commenters who suggest it’s the grad student’s fault. The AZ legislature is shit. Really, being a girl doesn’t make you bad at math. More “justice” in […]